Cannot see Linux machine from Network Neighborhood

rwelch · 03-06-2003, 06:49 AM

I've a Windows98 machine connected to a Linux (RedHat 7.0) machine using TCP, and via a cross-over cable. I can ping the Linux machine OK, and I can also ping the Windows machine OK. However, I cannot see the Linux machine from Network Neighborhood, is there something else I need ?

acid_kewpie · 03-06-2003, 06:51 AM

yup. samba. http://samba.org

Renod · 03-06-2003, 10:24 AM

Unfortunately, the Samba site assumes that you have some knowledge of what it does. What does it do and how do you install it?

(Boy, talk about a

)

baldy3105 · 03-06-2003, 10:33 AM

You go to samba.org and read the docs like everyone else.

Renod · 03-06-2003, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by baldy3105
You go to samba.org and read the docs like everyone else.

Remind me again about this is a site that helps people . . . what docs and where would have been nice

jamrock · 03-06-2003, 01:27 PM

I will post some links later. Don't have them with me now.

Peace.

rickenbacherus · 03-06-2003, 02:54 PM

Here's one: Samba Web Pages

Here's another: Documentation

Quote:

what docs and where would have been nice

what docs - as many as it takes where - at the site just as baldy said. I thought they were very easy to find.

philsta · 03-06-2003, 04:37 PM

You're right it's a help site, not a do it for you site

jamrock · 03-06-2003, 08:01 PM

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tu...mba/index.html

http://networking.earthweb.com/netos...le.php/1144701
http://networking.earthweb.com/netos...le.php/1151091

These tutorials deal with Samba as a PDC. You will have to ignore some sections if you are using Samba as a member server.

acid_kewpie · 03-07-2003, 02:31 AM

neat little guide jamrock, thanks

dsltech · 03-07-2003, 10:30 AM

documentation out the wazoo....nice!

Renod · 03-08-2003, 02:20 PM

Thanks for all the guidance to the different docs. On the AMD forums that I moderate, I encourage everyone to post the urls for newbie questions. Then we collect them together and create a sticky for a subject area.

One question for one of you SAMBA experts, do we have to start a Samba server to make a single machine (running Mandrade 9.0) available on a windows-based network? In reading through all of this I note that there are discussions of the client running. What I am trying to do is provide access for a portable running Mandy to some of the W2K machines on our local net. Right now it is the only Linux machine in this local group and the one that I am using to learn on (about 10 hours in now).

Thanks.....

Renod · 03-09-2003, 04:22 PM

Finally found a simple guide to Samba for us Newbies:
http://www.linuxorbit.com/howto/sambahowto.php3

That is what was needed by rwelch and myself.

dsltech · 03-09-2003, 08:28 PM

good job renod....helped me